Be warned that the Kardia app is not available in all regions. I live in Kenya, East Africa and I can’t download the app from the App Store nor onto my Android phone. My Kardia Mobile 6L is a brick in my case. AliveCor does not bother to replay to any email requests for assistance.
I think your attitude to patients with comments like “giving them data they can’t interpret...” is patronising. Yes, I’m a patient with SVT, who is more than capable of reading an ecg and takes an interest in his condition. Treating patients as if they have the intelligence of a daffodil is just wrong.
great review! I'm a 6th year medical student from Honduras, and we could really use a couple of these here. I love iMedicalApps! keep on the good work!
The finger tip are showing lead I. Heart conditions need more than just a Lead I. Moving AliveCor to the chest in positions similar to chest ECGs provides what this Device really brings.
As a curious patient looking for empowerment, thank-you for the review. I've been waiting for a 3rd party to make some comments. Hopefully AliveCor will be able to iterate and rapidly improve.
This seems like a device that would be suitable for first responders and nurses primarily, or for doctors that have limited resources at hand. The design and app seem flawed, however, because although it is easy to use, the device is limited to a specific phone design. I have a bag that for my unconventional goodies (Venoscope, temporal thermometer, etc.), so I imagine I wouldn't necessarily need a well thought out simply design as much as I would need standard equipment that could turn my phone into an EKG monitor. That in turn leads to the problem with the app. I imagine that if you could design wires that can fit any Android phone &/or has an adaptor that can fit the ever changing I Phones, then the app can easily be expanded to allow for a full 12 lead ECG with digital interpretation of the rhythm, along with storage and image transfer capabilities. Laymen would have very little need for this device without some other means of recognizing its value (video games, family members who are home bound but can't afford a private healthcare provider, etc.), but healthcare providers may flock to this device for easy of use and convenience; such people wouldn't mind having traditional V1-V6 wires on hand, along with electrode stickers. Everything that mattered could be done from a software development standpoint and not a hardware one. The business model would revolve around the needs of the individual. Anyone who would have the hardware and the basic app could have that for personal use. But the most popular use of such a device would be the means of interpreting data, storing data, and transferring data, which is all software driven. The potential for such a device is huge. As a nurse who likes gadgets, and who has floated to many varying hospital units, it would mean I could get an ECG immediately without having to know or learn equipment with which I may be unfamiliar. In addition, that means that jobs could be created to make sure that the data can be transferred to the various electronic medical records that exists--meaning that I could share the data, and have confidence that there is a team who is working on making sure my data is compatible with the institution in which I am employed. It may be worthwhile to maintain a subscription to such software if there is a team that makes sure that I can get the most up to data, virus free software that could interact with various electronic medical records. The app could be expanded to include rhythm learning materials. This expands user interests to persons who are not familiar with ECG interpretation--the curious laymen, healthcare students, persons in healthcare who irregularly need telemetry information, and healthcare workers who do come across telemetry regularly but not necessarily unstable or dangerous arrhythmias. Great concept, but limited by design and focus. Plus, I am more used to dealing with lead II.
You get much better readings if you put the Alivecor electrodes directly on your chest either side of your heart. I wonder if that would have changed your review somewhat.
I think you're clenching up too much! If you relax your arms and perhaps rest them in your lap I have a feeling your tracing will likely be much smoother. I was an EKG tech in a large hospital and patients not relaxing while recording was easily the most common reason for having a bad trace like that.
+Anson Depants Are you referring to the 4th generation model? I saw only one reference to it on the OmronHealthCare.com website, but could find no further about it. Is it available as of 1/21/16? What does it cost? Stable as in a more stable baseline for the ECG tracing or what?
+Anson Depants Actually they say the only difference on the 3:rd gen and 4:th gen units has to do with the texture on the measuring plates, its not as smooth on the 4:th gen as on the 3:rd gen so that it will be easier to feel the plates.
A poor presentation. The gentleman talks too quickly, often garbelled and using technical abbreviations which are not familiar to the average person. Complete wast of time.
Be warned that the Kardia app is not available in all regions. I live in Kenya, East Africa and I can’t download the app from the App Store nor onto my Android phone. My Kardia Mobile 6L is a brick in my case. AliveCor does not bother to replay to any email requests for assistance.
I have used this device for three months,I must say this is a great and accurate device.
Keep up the good work alivecor
I think your attitude to patients with comments like “giving them data they can’t interpret...” is patronising. Yes, I’m a patient with SVT, who is more than capable of reading an ecg and takes an interest in his condition. Treating patients as if they have the intelligence of a daffodil is just wrong.
Just fill out a 'Hurt Feelings' complaint form and they'll get back to you soon with an accompanying cup of concrete to harded the f#*k up 😂😂😂😂
great review! I'm a 6th year medical student from Honduras, and we could really use a couple of these here. I love iMedicalApps! keep on the good work!
will it differentiate between a sinus beat and a PVC?
The finger tip are showing lead I. Heart conditions need more than just a Lead I. Moving AliveCor to the chest in positions similar to chest ECGs provides what this Device really brings.
Agree. We are developing a wearable sensor technology that has the accuracy of clinical ECG/EKG equipment.
As a curious patient looking for empowerment, thank-you for the review. I've been waiting for a 3rd party to make some comments. Hopefully AliveCor will be able to iterate and rapidly improve.
This seems like a device that would be suitable for first responders and nurses primarily, or for doctors that have limited resources at hand. The design and app seem flawed, however, because although it is easy to use, the device is limited to a specific phone design. I have a bag that for my unconventional goodies (Venoscope, temporal thermometer, etc.), so I imagine I wouldn't necessarily need a well thought out simply design as much as I would need standard equipment that could turn my phone into an EKG monitor. That in turn leads to the problem with the app. I imagine that if you could design wires that can fit any Android phone &/or has an adaptor that can fit the ever changing I Phones, then the app can easily be expanded to allow for a full 12 lead ECG with digital interpretation of the rhythm, along with storage and image transfer capabilities. Laymen would have very little need for this device without some other means of recognizing its value (video games, family members who are home bound but can't afford a private healthcare provider, etc.), but healthcare providers may flock to this device for easy of use and convenience; such people wouldn't mind having traditional V1-V6 wires on hand, along with electrode stickers. Everything that mattered could be done from a software development standpoint and not a hardware one. The business model would revolve around the needs of the individual. Anyone who would have the hardware and the basic app could have that for personal use. But the most popular use of such a device would be the means of interpreting data, storing data, and transferring data, which is all software driven. The potential for such a device is huge. As a nurse who likes gadgets, and who has floated to many varying hospital units, it would mean I could get an ECG immediately without having to know or learn equipment with which I may be unfamiliar. In addition, that means that jobs could be created to make sure that the data can be transferred to the various electronic medical records that exists--meaning that I could share the data, and have confidence that there is a team who is working on making sure my data is compatible with the institution in which I am employed. It may be worthwhile to maintain a subscription to such software if there is a team that makes sure that I can get the most up to data, virus free software that could interact with various electronic medical records. The app could be expanded to include rhythm learning materials. This expands user interests to persons who are not familiar with ECG interpretation--the curious laymen, healthcare students, persons in healthcare who irregularly need telemetry information, and healthcare workers who do come across telemetry regularly but not necessarily unstable or dangerous arrhythmias. Great concept, but limited by design and focus. Plus, I am more used to dealing with lead II.
You get much better readings if you put the Alivecor electrodes directly on your chest either side of your heart. I wonder if that would have changed your review somewhat.
Does this work with an Ipod 4?
Is there a droid version?
yes
wonderful wonderful App
I think you're clenching up too much! If you relax your arms and perhaps rest them in your lap I have a feeling your tracing will likely be much smoother. I was an EKG tech in a large hospital and patients not relaxing while recording was easily the most common reason for having a bad trace like that.
I think thats a design flaw, you have to clench the phone a little to prevent it from sliding
turn the phone around and get a different reading
I think the products of SNAPECG are better.
It is more cost effective. The graphics are almost the same.
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The new on out is much more stable.
+Anson Depants Are you referring to the 4th generation model? I saw only one reference to it on the OmronHealthCare.com website, but could find no further about it. Is it available as of 1/21/16? What does it cost?
Stable as in a more stable baseline for the ECG tracing or what?
+Anson Depants Actually they say the only difference on the 3:rd gen and 4:th gen units has to do with the texture on the measuring plates, its not as smooth on the 4:th gen as on the 3:rd gen so that it will be easier to feel the plates.
What the hell did he just say?
Well this is disappointing.. So when you update your phone you need to buy a new one!!
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A poor presentation. The gentleman talks too quickly, often garbelled and using technical abbreviations which are not familiar to the average person. Complete wast of time.